Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, U. S. Secretary of State Stimson was quick to quash this League talk. "American participation in the Five Power Disarmament Conference," he wrote, "will be separate, distinct, and apart from the League of Nations...
...American school of sculpture? No. There is no such thing. Centuries must elapse before the civilization of Europe and of America can be called really distinct. In reality you [the U. S.] will always be learning from us, just as, reversing the picture, we shall always be learning from...
Harvard's reply to the questionnaire sent out recently by the officials of the I. C. 4-A was distinctly opposed to the division of the outdoor championship into two distinct championships, one for the track men and one for the held performers, so it was learned yesterday. Practically all of the 20 other replies so far received by the organization also expressed disapproval of this change. C. E. Galston '30, the Harvard track manager, who is president of the I. C. 4-A, stated that the discussion had been initiated by a letter from a former Eastern athlete...
...opening its Boston season, that Lynn Fontanne has nothing to do. The play is "Meteor", by S. N. Behrman, who wrote "The Second Man" and "Serena Blandish". And though Miss Fontanne is in it, on the stage, in fact, for a good part of it, she is a distinct second fiddle. This is all the more remarkable, because there are few enough actresses of her attainments who would take such a part, and none that would do it with such a fine sense of the artistic unity of the whole, and such a nice realization that she was there purely...
...Class Committee went to Guy Constant Holbrook Jr. of Clifton, Arthur Lithgow Devens Jr., of Boston, Bernard Barnos, of New Hartford, Connecticut, William Potter Lage, of Suffern, New York, Thomas Frothingham Mason, of Brooklyn, New York, and Howard Theodore Wenner, of Northhampton, Pennsylvania, all of whom held a distinct lead over the remaining nominees...